Saw Hot Shots! a film which, as its exclamation point promises, is indeed a comedy. This one is a spoof specifically of Top Gun and more generally of the US Air Force. I haven't actually seen Top Gun yet, so I don't know if any of the silliness was references but the film powers along with admirable gusto, throwing in everything and the kitchen sink to make us laugh. The opening sequence has the loner anti-hero being pulled out of retirement which he's spending with some native americans, smoking a helium peace-pipe. It's not very socially conscious or indeed even clever, but it's silly and funny enough.
The film is fairly harmless. Native american-sploitation aside, most of the humor is fairly tame, preferring nonsense over topical humor. There's a scene where some men are marching in formation out the window. In the next, they're kicking their legs like rockettes. It's whoopie-cushion-level humor. Funny, yes, but in a broad, Reader's Digest sort of way. I feel like this is the sort of film Air Force families would really love.
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